时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2018年1月


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AZUZ: People in the Middle Eastern country of Syria have been suffering the horrors of war for years. Since Syria's civil war started in 2011, the United Nations estimates that 400,000 Syrians have been killed, more than 6 million have lost their homes and more than 5 million have left the country. The war involves government forces fighting to stay in power, rebel groups that want that government overthrown 1. Terrorists organizations and other countries, like the U.S. and Russia, whose militaries have also been involved.


Idlib is a province in northwestern Syria, near the country's border with Turkey. It's the largest area that still control by rebels. And in recent days, fighting between them and Syrian government forces has gotten worse. The consequences are borne by civilians 2.


ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It feels like one is peering into a macabre 3 dollhouse of broken lives. Bits of concrete tumble down as people try to clean up or salvage 4 what they can amid the horrors that they can't escape.


Five of his relatives were in that building, three children among them.


Images like this are familiar a year ago from the siege of Aleppo, but this is Idlib City. This is where families were supposed to be safe. This was meant to be a refuge, one of the last remaining ones, part of a so-called de-escalation zone that lately has become anything but.


The four strikes that hit here happened five days before we arrived and many of those we met had actually fled from Aleppo.


So lucky they were in that back room.


UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.


DAMON: Mohammad Hacomachi(ph) is haunted by all he has lost. His wife was killed in Aleppo six years ago. He's raising his two sons on his own.


We head south where some towns already feel deserted 5. In Maarat al-Numaan, closer to the frontlines of the fighting, children rummaged 6 through the aftermath of bombs to look for plastic to sell.


We do get scared, we hide from the bombs, they say.


The Syrian regime and its foreign backers' latest push seems aimed at eliminating or at the very least sophisticating the last major rebel stronghold.


Hundreds of thousands of people have been on the move the last few weeks. Many fleeing ahead of what they know is coming or as soon as the first strikes hit.


Some live in makeshift camps along the road to Turkey, bringing everything they can, including their livestock 7.



1 overthrown
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
2 macabre
adj.骇人的,可怖的
  • He takes a macabre interest in graveyards.他那么留意墓地,令人毛骨悚然。
  • Mr Dahl was well-known for his macabre adult stories called 'Tales of the Unexpected'.达尔先生以成人恐怖小说集《意料之外的故事》闻名于世。
3 salvage
v.救助,营救,援救;n.救助,营救
  • All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
  • The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。
4 deserted
adj.荒芜的,荒废的,无人的,被遗弃的
  • The deserted village was filled with a deathly silence.这个荒废的村庄死一般的寂静。
  • The enemy chieftain was opposed and deserted by his followers.敌人头目众叛亲离。
5 rummaged
翻找,搜寻( rummage的过去式和过去分词 ); 已经海关检查
  • I rummaged through all the boxes but still could not find it. 几个箱子都翻腾遍了也没有找到。
  • The customs officers rummaged the ship suspected to have contraband goods. 海关人员仔细搜查了一艘有走私嫌疑的海轮。
6 livestock
n.家畜,牲畜
  • Both men and livestock are flourishing.人畜两旺。
  • The heavy rains and flooding killed scores of livestock.暴雨和大水淹死了许多牲口。
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adhesive bonding fixture
adultrant
allowable use
anti-transmit receive tube
Australized
automatic external standard
Banisteria caapi
barley unit
barrack square
bean leaf beetle
behind the lens BTL
bemisias
binary adder
birdinsek
byzantina
calcitriol
can failure
caut
Celastrus cuneatus
clamp stick
coast memory
cocrystallisation
collapsed stratum method
command signal with audio frequency
consumer intelligence
cook-wench
cosmopolitanism
crossbinding
crumple up
dickite
DLTM
Dontreix
ectocardia extrathoracica
Eisenandradit
Eitelberg's test
Ekimchan
electropneumatic straight air brake
equitable liabilities
first heart sound
flue gas loss
foundership
get a good review
glamorizers
guardian by nurture
hairy in round the heel
halodrymiun
high-voltage direct-current transmission (hvdc)
Hyalocylix
hydrodynamic transmission
IMRO
intervolume
Iris xiphium
jato
jim-morgan
jointworm
lethargical
line foci
lose the thread of
mabuza
megavolt ampere
MEPP
metachromophile
microchemical pollutant
Mikolaj Kopernik
military statistics
multinodal
net retention time
nontotient
oblique cutter nippers
paragraphly
passive secretion
past future perfect
performin
post-enumeration tests
public infrastructure
quiz game
ramenas
restricted sail area mark
ricefish system
rockists
scatella bullacosta
science of air campaign
seasoning matter
ship girder
sine centre
softlifting
South Region
St-Sever
stagnal
swrb
terrariums
the European Union
three point arbitrage
thyrsus (ancient greece)
total mileage
tuedays
undefensable
underdoers
uranium-plutonium oxide
valley attenuation
virtual logic
Weber's triangle